NHER 50062 (Building record) - Lilac Cottage, The Green

Field Survey, May 2004.
Cottage on the east side of Hunworth Green aligned east-west with a large catslide extension on the north. One storey and attic. Finial on west gable. All the exterior is rendered but the south wall is partly visible. At the east end there are red bricks with diagonal skintlings indicating a date before around 1780. There is a cemented straight join to later brickwork with horizontal skintlings, done sometime after that date. The older brickwork is in a most unusual bond - partly Monk (Yorkshire) bond with two stretchers between each header and partly two headers between each stretcher. At the west end of the building there is the same pattern except that there are no skintlings on the older bricks and the join between the two builds is not straight. At the centre there is a door behind a 19th century porch with a finial. The windows have been altered with 20th century brickwork. Very poor condition. View through windows into empty rooms reveals no features. Building visible as at present on (S1) with a terrace of cottages east-west on north side. It has the air of a school or public building but there is no map evidence for this use.
E. Rose (NLA), 23 April 2007